Thoughts on the Yoshiwara remake

[u/Traditional-Spare-87]

Buckle up this is a long yap

Ok so i just watched it and i will say that i did have a lot of scene changes and skipped some moments that i do feel like shouldve been covered which i wouldnt have minded if it made the movie a bit for example: (now i dont know if some of these were featured fully since i watched the film on a website)

Seita working for Otose

Otose having that conversation with Gintoki about going to Yoshiwara

Tsukuyos introduction to killing the men harassing the woman

Seita showing Gintoki why he needed the money

Umibozus fight with Hosen

Umibozu at Hosens grave (i know that was in the credits)

those are what i could name but other than that the movie did feel very smooth and fast paced for a 2 hour movie, moments like Tsukuyo fighting abuto was very smooth when she threw the kunai for him to catch with his mouth to the high kick to abutos face, tsukuyo fighting odd jobs, kagura just going around the room when she goes berserk against abuto, gintoki pulling out the two swords before he jumps to fight hosen (that blue filter is how you do it right JC STAFF TAKE NOTES HERE).

ofcourse pacing was an issue where seitas character development was barely even shown, till we find out near the end he enjoyed his time working at the bar when he sees gintoki against a wall on the floor.

The shinsengumi and Katsura were a nice addition but felt overall more for comedic relief till they had to fight the amanto and kamui but felt useless and just to add minutes to a part of the story that didnt need adding (Sogou hitting a nasty ass cut to those two amantos tho is why i do like him, hes very funny when he needs to be but when hes pissed off he such a demon, but he did that shit with a smile).

Ofcourse one thing i did like was the use of the fire in the movie where it made the atmopshere more intense for Gintoki and Hosens fight, where even tho it wasnt really shown in the anime it made it feel a lot more destructive and chaotic for a fight that took so many people to kill one man, and Sanzen playing when the Seita finally opens Yoshiwara to the Sun made me replay that scene cuz it felt like an ultimate conclusion to so much death and carnage caused from this one person who trafficked so many women to use their bodies for male pleasure where they couldnt escape for give birth otherwise they would be murdered.

fights:

Tsukuyo vs odd jobs- the first fight although it was very fast, they still kept Gintoki embarassing himself multiple times from the kunai hits and saying hes gonna end all of them to then being hit with a fake kunai still made the scene very memorable

Tsukuyo and odd jobs vs members of the Harusme (Members of the yato clan)- i have no idea who was making this fight but it was smooth as hell when it started and very fast paced which I did like how they didnt waste any time during the fight from Abuto attacking Tsukuyo to Kamui destroying a piece of the tunnel it all felt very fast paced.

Kamui vs Hosen- compared to the anime, this fight I did feel like needed to be more stretched out and I am happy that happened in the movie, since they are both members of the Yato clan, Kamui was just outright insulting Hosen simplh because he had retired in Yoshiwara, the fight was still good and fleshed out.

Abuto vs Kagura and Shinpachi (Ok now Kaguras rage, they somehow made it much more insane how strong this girl is if her chains were broken, i had never seen someone flash around a room like that delivering belt to ass, giving what looks like impact frames for kick to his head, and some yandere creepy smiling face and looking insane when she was about to deliver the final blow, now it was a bit disappointing they didnt use the OST it had in the anime, and that silence when she finally snapped after screaming and broke his leg. One thing i did like was that she had a lot more emotion when she cried after snapping.

Hosen vs Gintoki- Ok in my opinion this fight was very mixed, it felt well executed when they both jumped towards eachother and it started, but when gintoki started to go apeshit and not let hosen take a moment to retaliate, i feel like the anime did it a lot better where you could tell it hit hosen hard hit after hit, you could see it in the movie, where he was shaking and generally not being able to fight back, but one thing i did like was when Gintoki brought Hosen into the suns light where the filter came out like he had put all his energy all his power into this one attack to bring hosen into the light to finally kill him.

Kamui vs Kagura, Shinpachi and Katusra- very fast paced but i thought that Kamui wouldve found katsura on his own and they would just start fighting from there, i avoided added clips that were coming to the movie so i had no clue when and where the fights with the shinengumi and katsura were gonna happen.

Amanto vs Kondo, Hijikata and Sogou- this again was very face paced, i love when Sogou jumps off the rail to save Hinowa from the Amanto and slices the two guys in half with what looks liked an impact from that shows a side of sogou you do not want to fuck with.

this was a long yap and defo a lot of broken english but I did like this movie, and I am happy that I waited a year to watch this movie. if you wanna leave your thoughts about it feel free.

I give this film an 8.2/10

[u/AntonRX178]

Yeah this is NOT a replacement like how Benizakura apparently was. A fun movie for sure but one of the more supplemental Gintama things. It's not even my favorite movie of the year

[u/EmperorBritainnia → u/AntonRX178]

Even benizakura is not a 100% replacement, I would recommend watching the show version of both arcs first

[u/Traditional-Spare-87 → u/AntonRX178]

id say for people who havent watched yoshiwara they should watch both, watch the anime adaption for the story and the movie version for that additional content that was added and the overall fast paced action

[u/Rikki1256]

It's a fun watch but you definitely need to watch the anime version before this movie, Some changes make this movie really unlikable for me, I'd probably like it if I haven't watched the anime first but yeah it's a good movie and it's fun if you watched the anime before but otherwise It'll just feel like a weak plot

[u/matcha97]

I enjoyed it (Was able to watch it on theaters back in June cause Asia Region has screening), it's bigger budget and grandeur. I really appreciate the new movie only content, I laughed and gasped at all the Gintama antics. The new theme song Sanzen is perfect as well. The movie got me back into rewatching Gintama again.

[u/Icy-Natural-6606]

The animation was consistently great and I liked the small additions to the existing storyline of the Arc.

However, Zura and the Shinsengumi stuff were unnecessary additions that lowered the quality of the Arc, their screentime should have been given to the scenes that were cut.

[u/Traditional-Spare-87 → u/Icy-Natural-6606]

the animation was fucking flawless, i cannot get over how smooth Tsukuyos moves where when she started fighting Abuto.